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Simple guidelines on when to use outdoor and indoor Christmas lights

Christmas 2017 is almost here and the time to set up elaborated displays and decorating our surroundings is here. Now the first thing that goes through our brains, when we discuss Christmas is the Christmas adornments and decorations. Christmas most certainly feels empty and incomplete if we do not have any decorations or Christmas lights around us, decorating during Christmas is indeed considered as a vital tradition of the festival.

Witnessing the dazzling glow of brilliant Christmas lights or the beautifully decorated Christmas trees, both of these traditional Christmas decorations fill a person’s heart with Christmas spirit and happiness. People often go out to check out various Christmas lights display around the neighborhood and in community places.

Surely you must also partake in the whole fun filled tradition of decorating with Christmas lights and Christmas trees. After all Christmas light displays in Michigan look fantastic because everybody partakes in decorating. But before you actually start decorating you must know the essential information pertaining to Christmas lights. The thing that people often miss out on is that there are two types of Christmas lights, indoors and outdoors.

First of all the easiest way to identify Indoor lights is that they have a shorter wire than those meant for outdoors. That is because indoor Christmas lights are usually used to decorate the Christmas tree or a small area, such as a wall or some furniture. Secondly the Christmas lights for indoors are less resistant to extreme weather conditions and if you’ll hang these lights outside they’ll probably get damaged by the rain or strong winds. Plus you’ll notice they have a smaller bulb size. For indoors it’s recommended that you use LED mini lights as they look the best, and for the tree use battery powered as they are economical.


For outdoor Christmas trees you can even use incandescent Christmas lights as their heating properties make them inappropriate for indoor use. Though LED lights are a much better option as it is in flint Christmas lights are no longer incandescent and have been replaced by LED.

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